sicknessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪknɪs/
• ハイフネーション: sick‧ness
• 韻: -ɪknɪs

名詞

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I do lament the sickness of the king.

   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount

     Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

   • 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:

     Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:

     We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

同意語

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

派生語

参照

• “sickness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.